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South Korea, which boasts of being a world leader in digital government strategy and services, underwent a system failure of an unprecedented scale lasting nearly two days until Saturday. The outage forced the government operate manually while civil services were paused. The Ministry of Interior and Safety, which oversees the e-government systems, said Sunday that the operations should be able to get back to normal o.
“We still have names to remember,” reads a memorial plaque written in Korean and engraved on the ground of a narrow alley a few meters away from the exit of Itaewon Station..
The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea on Monday demanded that President Yoon Suk Yeol replace his entire Cabinet, starting with Minister of National Defense Lee Jong-sup, who the party is accusing of being behind the alleged cover-up of the death of a naval officer in July. Rep. Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party’s chair who is on day 12 of his hunger strike against what he calls “Yoon s tyranny,.
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled against a National Assembly vote to impeach Interior and Safety Minister Lee Sang-min, saying that he did not violate any laws in responding to a deadly crowd crush that killed 159 people who were enjoying Halloween festivities in Itaewon, Seoul, in October last year.